Where is vimrc or vim profile for github's mingw32 shell on a Windows machine?

Question

Cygwin has a home directory where I can store a .vimrc file to set up syntax highlighting. I know on linux machines this file is usually in a home directory and that it can be stored globally (although I haven't figure out how the global thing works yet).

I'm windows user (I apologize), so I use different shells for different things, and am not all too sure why syntax highlighting is not working when I launch it from the git bash shell. It works fine for cygwin and for putty. but not so much for git's mingw32.

Another thing is that when I ssh to a remote server using cygwin, I cannot use Vim, but I can use Vim just fine when I connect using Putty's shell.

Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Pandich

Answer 1

Git bash uses MSYSGIT, which comes with its own Vim . One way to look it up -

In your git bash type

$ type vim

it will tell you which vim executable is used. In my machine it points to

/bin/vim

if you type

vim --version, it spits out a lot of environment.

pipe it to a grep, like this

vim --version | grep vimrc and this will tell you the location(s) where this instance of vim will look for vimrc.

Pascoe

Ok... thanks for that info. It also is using the executable from /bin/vim, but the root is not really the root of my windows machine, it's the root of msysgit. I knew this before, and found a vimrc in the /etc folder which I used to copy to my home directory. When type in the grep command, it says: system vimrc file: $VIM\vimrc; user vimrc file: $HOME\_vimrc; 2nd user vimrc file: $VIM\_vimrc. All of these files have the same setting that I used for cygwin, but syntax highlighting still isn't working – Pandich

For me the file was in C:\Program Files\Git\etc\vimrc – Sadye

thanks @Sadye , I am using gitBash on windows-10 and vim on gitBash , vimrc is in C:\Program Files\Git\etc – Ralf

Answer 2

for my mingw64 windows 10 installation I found the default .vimrc at ...drum roll please... /etc/skel/.vimrc

Datnow